Successful Kiwi entrepreneurs – the Kiwi can-do attitude - Business

Successful Kiwi entrepreneurs – the Kiwi can-do attitude

Some of our most accomplished entrepreneurs lift the lid on what it takes to achieve big hairy audacious goals.

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29th September, 2012

What makes successful entrepreneurs different from other people? Many of them say it’s good luck. “My luck started when I was really young,” says Claudia Batten, a former lawyer who used to live in Wellington but is now a veteran of two successful start-ups in the United States that have made her a multimillionaire. She has her tongue lodged firmly below her stunningly angular cheekbones. But she is also genuinely grateful that she had the luck to have a father who taught her from a young age to “dream big, but start small”. Many other high-flyers can also attest to the huge role ...

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